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January 05, 2007
weather trending
a weather chart:
today's balmy weather-- 70 degrees and humid when i came home-- inspired me to curiosity. is this a normal weather trend or a result of global warming? if i inspected the high temp on this day for every year of my life, would i see a neat and obvious trend toward higher temperatures?
as you can see-- more clearly if you click through-- this isn't the case. it's not unprecendented for us to enjoy a temperature of 70 or greater on january 5th, here in central north carolina.
i guess this wasn't very scientific. i could look at the mean temperature for january for the last thirty-um years, but it's a manual process and i don't feel like it.
i guess the lesson here, though, is that although the global warming situation is clearly dire, warm weather in january isn't necessarily a problem.
Posted by lisa at January 05, 2007 07:54 PM
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i just finally saw "an inconvenient truth". that shit scared the hell out of me. but it's an amazingly inspirational movie. have you seen it?
Posted by: xta on January 8, 2007 03:13 PM
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